November 2008 Highlights

Novels
1. Between the Assassinations (Picador India, 2008) / Aravind Adiga
2. Girl In a Blue Dress (Tindal Street Press, 2008) / Gaynor Arnold
3. Fishing for Stars (Viking/Penguin Australia, 2008) / Bryce Courtenay
4. A Secret Alchemy (Headline Review, 2008) / Emma Darwin
5. Apology for the Woman Writing (Virago, 2008) / Jenny Diski
6. The Fire Gospel (Canongate, 2008) / Michel Faber
7. Wanting (Random House Australia, 2008) / Richard Flanagan
8. The Hour I First Believed (HarperCollins, 2008) / Wally Lamb
9. Family Planning (HarperCollins, 2008) / Karan Mahajan
10. A Mercy (Alfred A. Knopf, 2008) / Toni Morrison
11. Ice (Allen & Unwin, 2008) / Louis Nowra
12. Portobello (Hutchinson, 2008) / Ruth Rendell
13. The Armies (trans. from the Spanish by Anne McLean) (Quercus Publishing, 2008) / Evelio Rosero
14. Black Orchids (Virago, 2008) / Gillian Slovo
15. Friendly Fire (trans. from the Hebrew by Stuart Schoffman) (Harcourt, 2008) / A.B. Yehoshua

Stories
1. Just After Sunset (Scribner, 2008) / Stephen King
2. The Atmospheric Railway: New and Selected Stories (Jonathan Cape, 2008) / Shena Mackay
3. The Silence Room (Comma Press, 2008) / Sean O’Brien
4. Legend of a Suicide (University of Massachusetts Press, 2008) / David Vann

Poetry
1. Yellowrocket (W.W. Norton, 2008) / Todd Boss

Nonfiction
1. Venice for Lovers (Grove Press, 2008) / Louis Begley and Anka Muhlstein
2. Arthur Miller (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2008) / Christopher Bigsby
3. The Writer as Migrant (The University of Chicago Press, 2008) / Ha Jin
4. The Ancient Shore: Dispatches from Naples (The University of Chicago Press, 2008) / Shirley Hazzard and Francis Steegmuller
5. Somebody: The Reckless Life and Remarkable Career of Marlon Brando (Alfred A. Knopf, 2008) / Stefan Kanfer
6. Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney (Faber & Faber, 2008) / Dennis O’Driscoll
7. Promised Land: Thirteen Books That Changed America (Doubleday, 2008) / Jay Parini
8. A Place Within: Rediscovering India (Doubleday Canada, 2008) / M.G. Vassanji
9. Rimbaud: The Double Life of a Rebel (Atlas & Co., 2008) / Edmund White
10. William Hazlitt: The First Modern Man (Oxford University Press, 2008) / Duncan Wu